Saturday, February 04, 2012

Codex Climaci Rescriptus Collaboration

It's now official: DeMoss have made a press release announcing the collaboration of Tyndale House, Cambridge, and the Green Scholars Initiative to study the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, which belongs to the Green Collection. Peter Head will be heading up investigation of the Greek underwriting and I'll be heading up investigation of the Christian Palestinian Aramaic underwriting. GSI will supply a range of images and access to the original.

The text of DeMoss's press release is here. There are one or two things I would have put differently, but this gets the gist.

[Pictured above: Simon Gathercole and Peter Williams looking at a plate of Codex Climaci Rescriptus at the reception in Cambridge on 19 January 2012 announcing the collaboration of Tyndale House and the Green Scholars Initiative.]

John,Presentations on the material will naturally be done during the course of research and there'll probably be a symposium or two. The GSI are setting up some monograph series (pl) with Brill and so the main publication will be through Brill (dimitte nobis, emptor). However, don't hold your breath. The research is only just beginning. So the announcement is with a bang, but then you have to wait ...

Upon reading the first few lines, I misread that a certain "Codex Climati" from the "Green Collection" is under scrutiny. Now I've learned it is something more serious. Congratultaions, and I wish you a very good climate in studying the treasure!

Notes on Lucian's True Story and on Learning Greek
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In this post I want to do a couple of things. First, I needed a place to
put notes or corrections for the Greek reader version of Lucian’s True Story
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